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title: Slow Down - Broyhill Asset Management
description:   Steve Jobs’ Stanford University Commencement is worth watching again and again. Along with this speech, I set an annual reminder to read the poem...
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# [Slow Down - Broyhill Asset Management](https://www.broyhillasset.com/broyhill-blog/2017/06/18/slow-down)

 Written by [Christopher Pavese](https://www.broyhillasset.com/broyhill-blog/author/christopher-pavese) | 06/18/2017

 

 

Steve Jobs’ [Stanford University Commencement](https://news.stanford.edu/2005/06/14/jobs-061505/) is worth watching again and again. Along with this speech, I set an annual reminder to read the poem below from child psychologist, David L. Weatherford, which I first came across in the final chapter of [The 4-Hour Workweek](https://amzn.to/2sApAlc). 

 

***Slow Dance***  
***by David L. Weatherford***

*Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round,*  
*or listened to rain slapping the ground?*  
*Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight,*  
*or gazed at the sun fading into the night?*

*You better slow down, don’t dance so fast,*  
*time is short, the music won’t last.*

*Do you run through each day on the fly,*  
*when you ask “How are you?”, do you hear the reply?*

*When the day is done, do you lie in your bed,*  
*with the next hundred chores running through your head?*

*You better slow down, don’t dance so fast,*  
*time is short, the music won’t last.*

*Ever told your child, we’ll do it tomorrow,*  
*and in your haste, not see his sorrow?*

*Ever lost touch, let a friendship die,*  
*’cause you never had time to call and say hi?*

*You better slow down, don’t dance so fast,*  
*time is short, the music won’t last.*

*When you run so fast to get somewhere,*  
*you miss half the fun of getting there.*

*When you worry and hurry through your day,*  
*it’s like an unopened gift thrown away.*

*Life isn’t a race, so take it slower,*  
*hear the music before your song is over.*

 

**Happy Father’s Day.  **True wealth is never feeling rushed. Time is short. Slow down and enjoy it.  Take a look around you. Then get back after it on Monday!

 

 

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